Genesis 38:19-23

New International Version

¹⁹ After she left, she took off her veil and put on her widow’s clothes^(A) again.

²⁰ Meanwhile Judah sent the young goat by his friend the Adullamite^(B) in order to get his pledge^(C) back from the woman, but he did not find her. ²¹ He asked the men who lived there, “Where is the shrine prostitute^(D) who was beside the road at Enaim?”

“There hasn’t been any shrine prostitute here,” they said.

²² So he went back to Judah and said, “I didn’t find her. Besides, the men who lived there said, ‘There hasn’t been any shrine prostitute here.’”

²³ Then Judah said, “Let her keep what she has,^(E) or we will become a laughingstock.^(F) After all, I did send her this young goat, but you didn’t find her.”